Dental Assisting Program Student Assessment

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Dental Assisting Program Student Assessment

• Martha McCaslin, CDA, MA
• Program Director
• Dona Ana Community College

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Program History

• Began 2001
• 2001 Program Director/Instructor
  12 students (Jan Dec)
• 2008 - 18 students, Program
  Director 9-month faculty
• 2009 2 classes, 24 students
  (Fall start, May graduation)
• Lab renovated 2001 6 chair clinic
• Re-renovated 2006 12 chair clinic with DH

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Accreditation

• American Dental Association, Commission on
  Dental Accreditation (CODA) Originally
  Nationally Accredited 2003
• 7 year cycle
• Self Study - 6 standards
• New Mexico Board of Dental Health
• Recognized Education
  Provider Status

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Student Assessment

• Three semesters of competency assessment
• FALL
• General chair side Laboratory Skills
• - Infection Control/Sterilization
• Instrument identification
• Model taking, pouring, trimming
• Temporary fabrication
• Emergency procedures
• Radiography
• Patient Intake

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Student Assessment

• Spring
• Clinical Rotations Begin
• - Clinical Evaluations
• - Community Project
• - Self Evaluations/Reflections
• - More general chair side and lab skills
• - Bleaching Tray Construction
• - Jurisprudence
• - Specialty Instrumentation

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Student Assessment

• Summer
• Clinical Rotations Continue
• - Clinical Evaluations
• - Self Evaluations
• - More general chair side and lab skills
• - Rubber Dam placement
• - Office Management

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Rubrics

• Writing Assignments
• Research papers
• Case studies
• Critical Thinking/Problem solving
• Clinical Journal Entries
• Competencies (handout)
• Clinical Practicums Expected Outcomes/
  Evaluations (handout)
• Online Participation (handout)

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